Quickstart

All five apps are in one repository, uidbz/tie-gui. They build with Go 1.27+ and CGO, plus the native libraries for video, audio and devices.

Build

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/uidbz/tie-gui
cd tie-gui
go build ./cmd/imgview
go build ./cmd/tie-view
go build ./cmd/tie-fm
go build ./cmd/tie-audio
go build ./cmd/tie-browser

make install builds and installs the four desktop apps (imgview, tie-view, tie-fm, tie-audio) into ~/.local/bin, with a .desktop entry and a hicolor icon. tie-browser is built separately for now.

Native dependencies

docs/ANDROID.md covers the Android toolchain, the libmpv cross-compile and the APK build scripts.

First run

• imgview needs nothing: imgview ~/Pictures/2014, or pass an archive.
• tie-view, tie-audio and tie-fm need a tie config. Copy ~/.config/tie/config.toml from your library install, or use the test environment. Each app has a connection editor in Settings.
• tie-browser needs a collection with scenes; it creates a starter tie:/scenes/home if none exists.

The shared tie config has per-app collection profiles (images, audio, files). The apps fall back to DefaultCollection if a profile is missing.

The test environment

The tie repo’s test-env/ starts a local triplestore and filehost on 2161/2162. tie-audio has an extra layer that starts a pwplay server on 8080:

cd tie-gui/cmd/tie-audio/test-env
./start.sh

Use throwaway credentials (defaultuser / defaultpassword) and no public exposure.